Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Writer in Hollywood" will be the subject of a lecture to be given by Donald Ogden Stewart under the auspices of the English Department next Thursday in Sever 11 at 4:30 o'clock...
...Stewart, a popular author of the 1920's, is well known for his works, "perfect Behavior," a burlesque of Emily Post's etiquette series, and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad." In 1925, responding to the call of Hollywood, he left the East and moved out to a job writing scenarios for the screen, and he has remained in California a good deal of the time since then. Some of the more famous scripts on which he has worked are "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "The Philadelphia Story," and "Without Love." At present he is residing in Cambridge, preparing a play...
There is a nice lovestory hidden somewhere in the picture, and though there is practically no attempt really to explore or explain its possibilities, it somehow gets itself satisfactorily told. To a great extent Philip Barry, and Donald Ogden Stewart, who wrote the skilful screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
...west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
...four-man Board of Control Toronto elected a man who two years ago was an outlaw. After Canada outlawed the Communist Party, in June 1940, Communist Stewart Smith, 37, hid from the police for two years. Later he surrendered, was held two weeks in jail, then released. Last week, still a communist, he moved into an office in Toronto's City Hall...